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ends still look bulbed and was still mid july. he'll a few more inches all a round in a months time. so far i've only gotten 2.5 year olds and yearlings. we've got a lot of fawning cover and tend to have lots of doe setup shop on the farm over the summer. don't get an over abundance of bucks now. this week i'll shift cams to new sections of the farm. trying to see what's where before any shift when they get hard antlers.

I was out in the garage and what RealTCIII said popped into my head. Felt silly for half a second but yea.. no smell. Here's the colors and paint I used along with a leafy locust branch and a dishwashing sponge. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Small dog gets a boot. Something like a German Shepard even I'd be covering my legal butt and not shoot until it clamps down. Otherwise you might be in trouble. A bigger dog can easily take you down and hit something just right to do damage to effect your livelihood or kill ya. maybe even if by hitting arteries. If anything but the smallest dog goes after a young kid it's dead. That's my take. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

The deer will eat leaves and all of soybeans now until they start turning for plant dry down. After that depending on what food sources are around they'll eat bean pods into late season until they are gone. Harvested or not. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Be care to make sure your not grounded out on any veg. Your batteries will die in a hurry. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

3 strands with one offset and out is something that works. Makes the deer unsure if they can clear it. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

any "big woods" land i hunt up north is public land and i can't take a utv or atv in there to get all the way too it. not walking miles in to scout for what may or may not be there come hunting season either. my big woods hunting is limited anyway. if i won the lottery.... see you around the beginning of December.

a lot of us probably would be.... it's just many of us suck at taking pictures. i'm slowly getting into it. i'm in the hole a bit and still need a telephoto lens and a fish eye. if you can't control yourself enough to just watch a deer without killing it you need a less violent hobby. lol

between $270 and $300 depending on where you get it (mom and pop shop vs bigger box store). plus your probably going to add a shooting stick of some kind that's extra.

been so busy i haven't really kept up on things, so no i haven't. with hunting legislation, local deer stuff, and then projects around the house i'm not spending money to find out.... that could be good depending on how you look at it i guess.

ag fields are fine. was going to get some DeerAg but i haven't gotten time. we'll see if i can get a couple kill plots in. couple i want to get to flooded out. banks are washed so i can't get the compact tractor in there. second year in a row my food plots are left for fawning cover.

the 3 biggest bucks i've been after that are still roaming about have been verified one way or another to have been shot at at least twice in the past two seasons. crazy how they make it through. one buck even waits next to the road in a patch of cover until the bus comes. haha

it's awesome to see a buck reach that age. doesn't matter how big it is but more than likely it'll be whatever is considered big. hope you get a chance at him this fall.

henry should come out with a pump in 17 WSM. just sayin.

congrats!

if you don't shoot doe much at all. 2/3 or more of your deer wouldn't be phased much. i've noticed a difference depending on where i hunt out this way (brown it's down ground or properties that don't harvest many doe) and a difference the co-op made once we started encouraging doe harvest. before then people really didn't shoot doe much at all. all private ground. ADKS i agree with you not much seems to change.

they all seem to look great!

my cousin just had a big rainbow trout done. i assumed it was a replica and but he said no it was the real fish. i don't know who did it but must have been somewhere around the capitol region or vermont.

bow manufacturer has a recommended brace height range for each bow model. if you twist or untwist your new string to get the bow at the right brace height that's the sweet spot. you'll know because it'll have a lot less vibration/noise and probably shoot a little faster. that's the first thing you should do. you can make them yourself. i bought wool yarn that was ombre colored to match my bow finish. in acclimate weather if they get wet and frosty though it'll significantly slow the bow down. another spot is lightly wrapping the string loop ends with yarn where they contact the string grooves of the limbs. others will use something like moleskin tape there in the grooves.

i'm only 34 and can appreciate that planning. i'm in fairly decent shape too. i could only imagine it's a lot worse when you're older. seems like a terrible idea but wouldn't doubt it. local building inspector could check it out. just because someone makes a determination doesn't mean he wouldn't necessarily say something different. at least Belo would know then. in all honesty sending metal fasteners up through it might not fly either if you get too particular. depends on what's done. you brought up a valid point with the fire rating though. little ashamed i didn't think of it. houses can be quite a bit different than commercial though.

what's going on to the right? looks like someone's reaching up the deer's skirt. lol

you wouldn't be who you are without her and your daughter wouldn't be who she is without you. so i'm sure she's feeling proud from above too. just lost my grandfather this spring so i maybe understand what she's going through. you maybe not so much. i just know it still very much sucks! i pray to wish you all the best. sorry to hear it.

8' isn't much when you start adding up heights of things, especially when using a big game scale to weigh deer. unless there's living space above the garage i don't know as if the ceiling system needs to be maintained as a fire rated assembly. if attached i'd think your rating would be at the wall adjacent to your living space. i'm kind of rusty on residential construction. definitely be reserved using up there as storage though. hard to tell what you can and can't do without looking at the hoist in person. probably could just run an upright 2x6 stringer from truss and then you could probably just run equal length cables through those mounting brackets. if running a pipe you could just use conduit hanging hardware and threaded rod down to those mounting brackets. from the picture it looks like the housing might come off to let you to lag that into something too.

i know of a guy that hunts multiple state leases. he was picking up some of those too.

i picked up the 24 gun F&S safe several years ago. i got it cheap on black friday. store helped me load it into the truck and i got the help from a couple other people to get it into the house. we took everything out of it and removed the door. still worried that with us and the safe the weight might break stairs. went in fine though. it was a great investment. still wish i had a bigger one. wouldn't want to think about getting it in the house though. it just sits there now. not bolted down but nobody's moving it with any amount of men. it's full. only way it'll come out of there is to empty it or blow a hole in the house and pick it out with a crane.